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Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Michael T Osterholm · Little
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for epidemics that can challenge world order.Every new development--from exploding human and animal populations to trade and travel--intensifies our susceptibility... |
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Idiot's Guides: Algebra I
Carolyn Wheater · Alpha
Format: Print book
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Starting with the very basics and reinforcing concepts with practice and tips along the way, Idiot's Guides: Algebra I makes a complex subject easier to grasp and helps students and adult learners clear the hurdle that can stand between them and their academic goals. Special sidebars... |
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Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist
Chad Orzel · Basic Books
Format: Book
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Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea that scientists are somehow smarter than the rest of us is a common, yet dangerous, misconception,... |
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Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence
Joseph Mazur · Basic Books
Pages: 273
Format: Print book
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What are the chances? This is the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest and most seemingly impossible coincidences, like the woman who won the lottery four times or the fact that Lincoln's dreams foreshadowed his own assassination. But, when we look at coincidences mathematically,... |
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Human Body Identification Manual: Your body and how it works
Ken Ashwell · Chartwell Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The Human Body Identification Manual reveals the beauty and intricacy of the human body. This comprehensive visual guide explores the structure and function of all the parts that make up a human being: the bones, muscles, and skin, as well as the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, and nervous... |
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The Sting of the Wild
Justin O Schmidt · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 257
Format: Hardcover
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Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it's a brave exploration, others shake their heads in disbelief. His goal? To compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the gauge.In The Sting of the Wild, the colorful Dr. Schmidt takes us on a journey... |
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 421
Format: Paperback
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Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate... |
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Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
Govert Schilling · Belknap Press
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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It has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century: the detection of gravitational waves. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime nearly a hundred years ago, but they were never perceived directly until now. Decades in the making, this momentous... |
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The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self
Anil Ananthaswamy · Dutton Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, a tour of the latest neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's disease, ecstatic epilepsy, Cotard's syndrome, out-of-body experiences, and other disorders - revealing the awesome power of the human sense of self from a master of science... |
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The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
Donald R Kirsch · W W Norton
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered... |
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Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide
Gene Helfman · Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Answering every conceivable question about sharks, authors Gene Helfman and George H. Burgess describe the fascinating biology, behavior, diversity (there are more than 1,000 species worldwide) , and cultural importance of sharks, their close relationship to skates and rays, and their... |
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The Secret Life of Equations: The 50 Greatest Equations and How They Work
Richard Cochrane · Firefly Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity (E=mc2) , is a central theory in modern physics with implications on our insight into everything from black holes to the expansion of the universe. But how did Einstein come up with it? And what has happened to it since then? The Secret... |
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Unlocking the Past: How Archaeologists Are Rewriting Human History with Ancient DNA
Martin Jones · Arcade Pub
Pages: 348
Format: Book
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In Unlocking the Past, Martin Jones, a leading expert at the forefront of bioarchaeology - the discipline that gave Michael Crichton the premise for Jurassic Park - explains how this pioneering science is rewriting human history and unlocking stories of the past that could never have been... |
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